Coming home, or am I getting boring?

So one good thing about going back to work is that I get to experience that uniquely warm and reassuring feeling of letting yourself in at the end of a long day, pouring a glass of wine, changing your clothes and luxuriating in how much you like your home. I'm happy tonight. Not least because yet again I've shunned the bloody cookery programmes all over the place at the moment, and have invented what turned out to be a delicious supper of ham (baked myself, mais oui), new potatoes and - innovation alert - pan fried salad. sounds grim; tastes divine. I think it's all about the dressing. So now I'm full, warm, comfortable (Maslow would be having a field day here) and about to embark on reading slash daydreaming to the tunes of the new Radiohead album, which, like everyone else I know, I think is amazing. Turns out Monday's not so bad after all.

Natural Convenience

No, this isn't a reference to an ecologically sound toilet. It's the tagline of The Yard in Battersea - a genius new idea that fits right into my stupidly busy life (which also explains the long blog silence). It has 8 cooking stations where you can go in and prepare meals for yourself - all organic ingredients, recipes and stuff all there to speed up the process. You can take them home, stock up your freezer and avoid those misery-inducing moments of being hungry but too tired to cook, and besides all you've got is some peanut butter and noodles. I love it. On the corner of Northcote Road, tel no is 020 7924 1199. If you don't even have time to go cook, they deliver.

Kensington Roof Gardens

I remember going to this building when it was a big, hot goth's dream. How different it is now... there's the Whole Foods supermarket with canteen (well, next door anyway) and this roof garden which sounds genuinely excellent - and it's a huge 1.5 acres big... Friday and Saturday nights involve Tudor barbeques (??) and a club.